Determinants of Health

Determinants of Health explores the influences on health beyond an individual’s biological or behavioral health. These influences include education, poverty, employment, and housing. Importantly, all of these influences are also determined by politics, racism, and discrimination. Readers will be encouraged to reflect on their own cultures and identities and the potential impact on others; to identify examples of systemic bias, institutional and individual racism and discrimination; and to analyze and discuss determinants of health.